[Soderbergh] allowed Roberts off the leash, transforming her from a movie star into an Oscar-winning actress.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 13, 2025

In the title role, Roberts carries the film in the best sense, by taking us on a human journey of genuine discovery and growth.

| Feb 16, 2018

Julia Roberts winner. R mostly for language.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 24, 2010

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 18, 2002

Erin is far and away her own worst enemy — and a good thing too, because she needed at least one.

| Original Score: B | May 8, 2002

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 19, 2002

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | May 10, 2001

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 17, 2001

Roberts shines.

Full Review | Original Score: B+ | Jan 1, 2000

An exhilarating tale.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

One of the gutsiest, most exciting, and most satisfying courtroom docudramas ever, one that genuinely lifts the spirits as you watch it.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jan 1, 2000

Atop all the talk about this being Roberts' career performance so far (and it is), it would be unjust to overlook that this is also the best screen role Finney has had in years.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 1, 2000

It's easy to forget you're watching a performance.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

[Roberts looks] spectacularly and movingly human even at the expense of her established persona.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

Just watch [Finney's] reactions to see a great supporting actor at work.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 1, 2000

It's a prime Julia Roberts movie, and it is beguiling at just that.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 1, 2000

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 1, 2000

With this script, Grant becomes Hollywood's foremost writer of strong, smart women's roles, and Lachmann works the same wonders with the atomizing light of Southern California that he did in Soderbergh's The Limey.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

Soderbergh demands a lot from his star here, and she delivers, perhaps more than even he expected.

| Jan 1, 2000

The arc of the tale may be conventional, but Roberts, in her most forceful dramatic performance, allows us to take in every moment through fresh, impassioned eyes.

| Original Score: B+ | Jan 1, 2000